UKIP has been smeared left and right (and by Left and Right). But the party's crazy "Christian Manifesto" is a licence to promote real bigotry and to make the lives of gay people truly miserable. What is UKIP playing at?

Socialists do not tend to support things that might lose them their electorate. Keeping the poor poor is a standard trick of the left. What would they do if "ordinary people" were no longer dependent on them?